On the misuses of medical history

King, Helen; Green, Monica H.

doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(18)30490-2

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“…Older patients had more previous medical history, so there were more comorbidities ( King & Green, 2018 ). Hypertension and diabetes were common among Chinese elderly ( Guan et al, 2020 ).…”

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Clinical characteristics of 312 hospitalized older patients with COVID-19 in Wuhan, China

Lü

Zhang

et al. 2020

Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics

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Highlights Most of the patients with COVID-19 who need to be admitted to hospital are older. Older patients with COVID-19 had much more co-morbidity, complications and mortality. Age, SOFA score, APACHEⅡ score, platelet count＜125 × 109/L, d-dimer, creatinine＞133 μmol/L, interleukin-6, and lung consolidation on admission were independent risk factors for severe cases among older patients with COVID-19. More attention should be paid to older patients with COVID-19.

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Clinical characteristics of 312 hospitalized older patients with COVID-19 in Wuhan, China

Lü

Zhang

et al. 2020

Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics

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“…Second, the public perception of how epidemic diseases behave is substantially influenced by the media and popular culture (2,4,6,30); parts of this perception are sometimes adopted as scientific facts (31,32). Similar issues have recently been brought to our attention regarding the widespread and incorrect diagnostic use of images of persons with a disease that is wrongly assumed to be plague (33,34) and media perpetuation of several recent misguided anxieties over how the Ebola virus is spread (35,36).…”

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Social Responses to Epidemics Depicted by Cinema

Han¹,

Curtis²

2020

Emerg. Infect. Dis.

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“…In the geosciences, for example, the Geoscience Data Journal has recently appeared to this effect, but such fora are lacking for historical scholarship. A related aspect to this is making sure more scientific journals with articles using historical data involve historians as part of the peer-review team (King & Green, 2018).…”

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“…Using historical data noncritically, therefore, can lead to misguided or even spurious conclusions on long-term climate-society linkages. A critical investigation of historical big data, its gathering, processing and analysis, is therefore needed to remove its aura of scientific objectivity and to avoid the proliferation of "bad history" in scientific journals (as observed for medical history) (King & Green, 2018).…”

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Climate and society in long‐term perspective: Opportunities and pitfalls in the use of historical datasets

Bavel

Curtis

Hannaford

et al. 2019

WIREs Climate Change

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Recent advances in paleoclimatology and the growing digital availability of large historical datasets on human activity have created new opportunities to investigate long‐term interactions between climate and society. However, noncritical use of historical datasets can create pitfalls, resulting in misleading findings that may become entrenched as accepted knowledge. We demonstrate pitfalls in the content, use and interpretation of historical datasets in research into climate and society interaction through a systematic review of recent studies on the link between climate and (a) conflict incidence, (b) plague outbreaks and (c) agricultural productivity changes. We propose three sets of interventions to overcome these pitfalls, which involve a more critical and multidisciplinary collection and construction of historical datasets, increased specificity and transparency about uncertainty or biases, and replacing inductive with deductive approaches to causality. This will improve the validity and robustness of interpretations on the long‐term relationship between climate and society.This article is categorized under: Climate, History, Society, Culture > Disciplinary Perspectives

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On the misuses of medical history

Cited by 9 publications

References 4 publications

Clinical characteristics of 312 hospitalized older patients with COVID-19 in Wuhan, China

Clinical characteristics of 312 hospitalized older patients with COVID-19 in Wuhan, China

Social Responses to Epidemics Depicted by Cinema

Climate and society in long‐term perspective: Opportunities and pitfalls in the use of historical datasets

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